Haguenbot, John, a celebrated German physician, born at Zwickow in Saxony. His preceptor made him change his name of Haguenbot to that of Cornarius, under which he is most known. At twenty years of age he taught grammar, and explained the Greek and Latin poets and orators to his scholars; and at twenty-three was licentiate in medicine. He found fault with most of the remedies provided by the apothecaries; and observing, that the greatest part of the physicians taught their pupils only what is to be found in Avicenna, Rhazes, and the other Arabian physicians, he carefully sought for the writings of the best physicians of Greece, and employed about fifteen years in translating them into Latin, especially the works of Hippocrates, Aetius, Eginetus, and a part of those of Galen. Meanwhile he practised physic with reputation at Zwickow, Frankfort, Marburg, Nordhausen, and Jena, where he died of an apoplexy in 1558, aged fifty-eight. He also wrote some medicinal treatises; published editions of some poems of the ancients on medicine and botany; and translated some of the works of the fathers, particularly those of Basil, and a part of those of Epiphanius.

Cornaro, Lewis, a Venetian of noble extraction, memorable for having lived healthful and active to above one hundred years of age by a rigid course of temperance. By the ill conduct of some of his relations he was deprived of the dignity of a noble Venetian; and seeing himself excluded from all employments under the republic, he settled at Padua. In his youth he was of a weak constitution; and by irregular indulgence reduced himself at about forty years of age to the brink of the grave, under a complication of disorders; at which extremity he was told that he had no other chance for his life, but by becoming sober and temperate. Being wise enough to adopt this wholesome counsel, he reduced himself to a regimen of which there are very few examples. He allowed himself no more than twelve ounces of food and fourteen ounces of liquor each day; which became habitual to him, that when he was above seventy years of age, the experiment of adding two ounces to each by the advice of his friends, had like to have proved fatal to him. At eighty-three he wrote a treatise which has been translated into English, and often printed, entitled, "Sure and Certain Methods of attaining a Long and Healthful Life;" in which he relates his own story, and extols temperance to a degree of enthusiasm. At length the yolk of an egg became sufficient... sufficient for a meal, and sometimes for two, until he died with much ease and composure in 1666. The writer of the Spectator, No 115, confirms the fact from the authority of the Venetian ambassador at that time, who was a descendant of the Cornaro family.